Documentation/Events
This page tracks documentation-related talks, presentations, and workshops across Wikimedia events. Please add your session to the list below using the documentation event template.
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Upcoming events
editPast events
editMarch 2025
editIntro to technical writing for Wikimedia
A workshop on writing documentation for Wikimedia tools.
- Author: User:TBurmeister (WMF)
- Date and time: Friday, March 28, 15:20 to 15:50 UTC
- Place: Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025 (virtual)
- Languages: English
October 2024
editCatalog-a-thon for GLAM tools in Toolhub
An edit-a-thon focused on adding Toolhub annotations for GLAM tools.
- Author: User:TBurmeister (WMF)
- Date and time: Saturday, Oct 5th, 13:30 to 15:45 UTC
- Place: WikiConference North America, room IP231
- Languages: English
May 2024
editDoc Your Tool
A project encouraging Hackathon participants to write user-friendly documentation for tools. Note: this session was not fully run as planned due to travel complications; it will (hopefully) be offered again at the 2025 Hackathon in Istanbul.
- Author: User:Joris_Darlington_Quarshie, User:TBurmeister (WMF)
- Date and time: 2024 May 3-5
- Place: Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 (Talinn, Estonia)
- Languages: English
- More information: Session overview
January 2024
editTechnical Documentation 101
An introduction to technical documentation theory and best practices
- Author: User:APaskulin (WMF)
- Date and time: 2024 January 20
- Place: Wiki Mentor Africa 2024
- Languages: English
November 2023
editMastering Tool Documentation: Building User-Friendly Guides for Wikimedia Tools
In this hands-on workshop, participants learn essential skills and best practices for creating user-friendly and informative documentation for tools hosted on Wikimedia Toolhub. We explore the key elements of comprehensive tool documentation, including installation instructions, usage examples, troubleshooting tips, and contribution guidelines.
- Author: User:Joris Darlington Quarshie and Afimaame
- Date and time: 2023 November 4
- Place: WikiIndaba 2023
- Languages: English
May 2023
editImprove Your Technical Writing
In this interactive workshop, we'll discuss techniques to improve our technical writing, and level up our abilities to explain, convince and inspire others. We will evaluate and critique examples of technical writing in Phabricator, IRC/Slack, code review comments and commit messages.
- Author: User:KHarlan (WMF)
- Date and time: 2023 May 21
- Place: Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 (Athens, Greece)
- Languages: English
October 2022
editWMF Data Documentathon
A presentation about documentation best practices, to support WMF data teams in undertaking a week-long technical documentation edit-a-thon that focused on documenting datasets in Datahub and on Wikitech.
- Author: User:TBurmeister (WMF)
- Date and time: 2022 Oct 3-4
- Place: virtual
- Languages: English
May 2022
editDocumentation to Conquer the Dungeon
Navigating Wikimedia tech spaces can feel like crawling through a dungeon. Docs are the tools (and healing potions) we need to survive! In this session, we'll discuss how we can create excitement and peer support to help each other conquer the dungeon with documentation.
- Author: User:TBurmeister (WMF)
- Date and time: May 21
- Place: Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022, virtual
- Languages: English
Template
editJanuary 2025
edit<event title>
<event description>
- Author: <author - link to author's user page>
- Date and time: <date and time - link to ZoneStamp or similar service>
- Place: <event location>
- Languages: <event languages>
- More information: <additional information (notes, Phabricator tickets, etc.>
- Slides: <link to slides>